To Whom May Be Concerned,

I Love my official vers.. But there seems to be one problem i don't like
( rather i am jealous of Mega patch users ) My media is not as pretty as
it could be...

I Will Post Two images in pov.bin.images as example of what i mean..

The declarations {method_3,aa_levels, & aa_threshold} really seem to
fine tune the media... the Mega image is so much pretty in my view, and
well...

Will the Official vers. Incorporate this feature(s)... More of a
rhetorical question.. just hoping for implementation in future
updates... please.. pretty please w/ icing in top... and a
cherry....?..?..?.

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Hi Ryan,

First let me say these are my opinions. I'm just a regular
Pov user, like yourself, maybe a little older. I've noticed
in some of your posts in p.b.i your concern with this issue.
My first thought is to want to say: Relax, it will work out.
Any version of Pov you use will give you new insite and experience.

I have been using Povray for Windows since it was first released
and I was lucky enough to stumble across it. It truly is a
wonderful and magnificent program. We all have many people to
thank for it's existence.

Over the years there have been a number of patched versions released.
Some for fairly specific things and others which were very
ambitious. I tried out all of them, if there was a executable supplied.

Some did things that I really wanted to use all the time and others
which I used in specific images created to exploit whatever feature
they had.

But, I always went back to the official version.
Now with MegaPov I find myself using it (MegaPov) for everything.
Nathan has done an incredible job in releasing this.
You can tell from the documentation and web site that this
is a serious endeavor. But, most importantly you can tell
from MegaPov itself. As I said I have been using MegaPov
(Version 0.3) since it's release and have had no problems
whatsoever.

Of course it is a personal decision. I looked at your examples
and can see your frustration. Last night I was rendering some
smoke and until I put in method 2 I wasn't happy. For me there
is no turning back.

As to what will be in the next Official Version I have learned
that patience is the most important thing to develop.
Just know that these incredibly talented and giving people
are out there doing their work. I try not to expect too much,
that way I am pleasantly surprised.

And again, Mega or Official, it's all Pov to me!

Hope this helps, I'm back to my smoke and ice.

Peter Warren
war### [at] hotmailcom

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As far as I know, megapov is a kind of "POV-Ray 3.5 test version".
  So yes, those features will most likely to be included in the next
official version of povray.

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Ok i will try to be patient... Cant hurt To put my two cents in anyhow...
Yes i do like the Mega vers. and its features I downloaded it when i was
informed of the mac vers immediately, but,,, something about the interface
just does not sit well w/ me i much prefer the clean cut 2 window (3 w/
preview) interface of the official... not to mention some other features i
am just quite use to by now...

Thank you for the concern...

Peter Warren wrote:

>  Hi Ryan,
>
> First let me say these are my opinions. I'm just a regular
> Pov user, like yourself, maybe a little older. I've noticed
> in some of your posts in p.b.i your concern with this issue.
> My first thought is to want to say: Relax, it will work out.
> Any version of Pov you use will give you new insite and experience.
>
> I have been using Povray for Windows since it was first released
> and I was lucky enough to stumble across it. It truly is a
> wonderful and magnificent program. We all have many people to
> thank for it's existence.
>
> Over the years there have been a number of patched versions released.
> Some for fairly specific things and others which were very
> ambitious. I tried out all of them, if there was a executable supplied.
>
> Some did things that I really wanted to use all the time and others
> which I used in specific images created to exploit whatever feature
> they had.
>
> But, I always went back to the official version.
> Now with MegaPov I find myself using it (MegaPov) for everything.
> Nathan has done an incredible job in releasing this.
> You can tell from the documentation and web site that this
> is a serious endeavor. But, most importantly you can tell
> from MegaPov itself. As I said I have been using MegaPov
> (Version 0.3) since it's release and have had no problems
> whatsoever.
>
> Of course it is a personal decision. I looked at your examples
> and can see your frustration. Last night I was rendering some
> smoke and until I put in method 2 I wasn't happy. For me there
> is no turning back.
>
> As to what will be in the next Official Version I have learned
> that patience is the most important thing to develop.
> Just know that these incredibly talented and giving people
> are out there doing their work. I try not to expect too much,
> that way I am pleasantly surprised.
>
> And again, Mega or Official, it's all Pov to me!
>
> Hope this helps, I'm back to my smoke and ice.
>
> Peter Warren
> war### [at] hotmailcom

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In article <3874E577.AADFCA5E@earthlink.net>, rdm### [at] earthlinknet wrote:

> Ok i will try to be patient... Cant hurt To put my two cents in anyhow...
> Yes i do like the Mega vers. and its features I downloaded it when i was
> informed of the mac vers immediately, but,,, something about the interface
> just does not sit well w/ me i much prefer the clean cut 2 window (3 w/
> preview) interface of the official... not to mention some other features i
> am just quite use to by now...

You don't like the preferences window? Hmm.
The one thing I have a problem with is the fact that it doesn't save 
preferences in the scene file, like the official version does. Other 
than that, I like the editor, although I rarely use the new templates 
for simple things.
Maybe I will compile a version with the official GUI. And move my patch 
work to MegaPOV. Like I have been planning to. :-)
Oh, well. Off to download the latest source...

-- 
Chris Huff
e-mail: chr### [at] yahoocom
Web page: http://chrishuff.dhs.org/

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ryan mooney wrote in message <3874E577.AADFCA5E@earthlink.net>...
>Cant hurt To put my two cents in anyhow...

Absolutely. I had some of the same questions myself.

>informed of the mac vers

Oh, you use the Mac version. When I first saw some of
it's features on a web site I was very impressed. Quite
cool.

Peter

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Yes I love it, some of the features i am just not willing to let go, one
most used is the partial render box where i can randomly place a box
around the partial i want to render randomly instead of the partial
image coordinates...

B.T.W... I am planing a "Two Scents" Scene w/ two flipped pennies but...

Well Lincoln  and his memorial are posing some problems.. Any
suggestions...?
I looked on the web w/ no luck in finding a suitable pict. of both sided
of a penny..

Peter Warren wrote:

> ryan mooney wrote in message <3874E577.AADFCA5E@earthlink.net>...
> >Cant hurt To put my two cents in anyhow...
>
> Absolutely. I had some of the same questions myself.
>
> >informed of the mac vers
>
> Oh, you use the Mac version. When I first saw some of
> it's features on a web site I was very impressed. Quite
> cool.
>
> Peter

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ryan mooney <rdm### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

> Yes I love it, some of the features i am just not willing to let go, one
> most used is the partial render box where i can randomly place a box
> around the partial i want to render randomly instead of the partial
> image coordinates...

We don't quite understand what you mean here. Could you explain a bit
more?

Smellenbergh
-- 
e-mail:sme### [at] skynetbe

http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh

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I guess its the same as the cut feature ( little scissors ) in Mega.pov...
But i still like the original better...

smellenbergh wrote:

> ryan mooney <rdm### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
>
> > Yes I love it, some of the features i am just not willing to let go, one
> > most used is the partial render box where i can randomly place a box
> > around the partial i want to render randomly instead of the partial
> > image coordinates...
>
> We don't quite understand what you mean here. Could you explain a bit
> more?
>
> Smellenbergh
> --
> e-mail:sme### [at] skynetbe
>
> http://users.skynet.be/smellenbergh

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